YOUR PROJECTS PAGE 2 More projects on the way. Send us pictures of your projects.We would love to show them on our site. email stevekreider@invent-manufacture.com
04-25-2010
Sande' Mathisen is having Innovative Products LLc Build some vine trellis. She is donating them to the Master Gardner program, a WSU extension project. These will be at the plant sale in Omak.
Scott Goodman is building some vine trellis for Sande' Mathinsen.
Steve Kreider is machining an adaptor plate that stays mounted on the faceplate of the lathe. It brings the machining capability to 31.5 inches
After facing the the adapter plate, we mounted a home made tool post grinder on the lathe and finished the plate.
Jesse finished the plate, it is drilled to mount patern block
The patern block is mounted on the lathe, ready to be tuned
Scott Goodman and Jesse Thomson, Co founders of the Invention Works, help build the casting flask for Stephen Kreiders mold parts.
We are adding mounts to the ends of the large flasks to allow lifting it and flipping it as needed
05-08-2010
I am close to turning the patern for the mold. I am building a template to get the correct profile to the patern. I am machining this on a horizontal milling machine I modified earlier
I mounted the templet on a stand mounted on the bed of the lathe. I placed a follower on the end of the boring bar. After adjustng the patern I start cutting the mold patern. The templet allows me to create a accurate profile
I have cut the profile on the outside of the patern block. I am now starting the profile on the inside.
This is one half of the patern from lathe. We will be casting one half of a ring at a time.
We built extentions on each end of the patern. We want to be sure that we have enough metal after casting shrinks, and if there are bubbles etc in the metal.
Steve spent a lot of time filling imperfections with "bondo". Then a lot more time sanding.
05-29-2010
Patern has been sprayed with several very heavy coats of sandable, primer surfacer. This will then be sanded till imperfections are gone. Then a finish coat will be applied.
While I am working on the mold patern, Jesse and Scott work on the Mold Flask
The mold will weigh around 1000 lbs. We are using my pump truck to handle the mold. After packing the sand we will need to flip the mold, then pack the sand in the other flask. Jesse and Scott assemble a device to handle the mold.
Jesse Thomson built a swivel that can change centers, depending on if the molds are packed with sand or not, and handle them independently or together
This mold was built very heavy duty. We used 1-1/8" plywood. It is framed with 2x4. This will weigh in excess of 1000 lbs. When the bottom half of the mold is packed with sand, it will have to be flipped to pack the top half of the mold. We have tried to design this as easy to use and handle as we can.
05-12-2010
We visited Hank Rogers, a local contractor. He has built many machines over the years. Here are a few of his latest creations.
Hank built this roller to compact driveway gravel
Hank Rogers built this screening plant. He makes sand and topsoil materials with this.
Most of the locals recognize Hanks shop built grader
Hank built this vibrating screen to help build his top soil product
Hank Rogers owns Eagle Excavating in Twisp Wa. Hank is very talented . He has built many pieces of equipment that allow him to offer many services in his business. Many people come to Hank to fix or advise them on how to fix their equipment. Hank helps this community in many ways.
I wish I had pictures showing his progress durring the building of these machines. Here are pictures of just a few of his projects.
If you have projects you are doing, or have finished, send me some pictures and descriptions. I would like to show them. Projects can be electronic, or mechanical.
If you know someone that is innovative and has projects, send us their information. We would like to show their talents. stevekreider@invent-manufacture.com
Work gets in the way. There is always plenty of projects. Our casting has been put on hold for a bit.
We had plenty of problems on the well we are drilling now. The last obstacle is we broke the drill stem. It broke 80 ft below the surface. The closest one I found t rent was in Oregon. It was currently out.
The emergency project is to build a fishing tool to get the broken stem out. Over the weekend I designed a overshot tool. So here it goes.
Monday morning I made the trip over the pass to purchase some very heavy wall tube.. One piece was 6 inch OD with a 4 inch ID. another was 5 1/4" OD X 4 1/2ID, another was 5 3/4OD x 4 7/8 ID +_ They had just what I needed. Great luck.
The first piece of metal goes into lathe right away
Here are 2 other pieces of metal that were purchased to make the overshot fishing tool. I was able to change my design a little. I will not be using the one on the right. The old drill bit will be turned down to be used as the pin for the tool. This is how it connects to the rotary drill.
We are turning down the bottom piece of the overshot tool to fit into the 6inch well
We have installed another piece of steel. We are machining the floating wedge that will grab the drill steel.
I am sizing the old bit to fit into the top piece of of the overshot fishing tool.
06-08-2010
Here are the three parts to our overshot fishing tool
Another view of the three pieces ot the overshot we made.
This is complete well drilling overshot fishing tool
